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butterflyrajib
04-Dec-2018, 03:19 PM
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I am uploading both view of female Pelopidas genus for yours valuable indentification opinion. Images captured from Jaguli-Nadia, West Bengal, India in the month of November 2018.

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Rajib Dey
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Psyche
04-Dec-2018, 06:40 PM
Female Pelopidas agna.
The UnH is quite uniformly ochreous brown. There is a fair bit of abrasion. UnH with a spot 7 present.

P. conjuncta; FW spots distinctly yellow contrasting with the HW spots.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/PelopidasConjuncta/PelopidasConjuncta_KSaji_ac764.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/PelopidasConjuncta/PelopidasConjuncta_KSaji_ac767.jpg

P. subochracea :HW with reduced spots, spots 2, 3, 4, & 6, spot 6 largest ,;no spot 7.
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/PelopidasSubochracea/02PelopidasSubochracea_KrushnameghKunte_ak574.jpg
https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/media_images/PelopidasSubochracea/thumb/th_04PelopidasSubochracea_KrushnameghKunte_ak557.j pg

Mating pair ;female on the right.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/622/21941784288_4936d66a4c_b.jpg


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